Naniwa Shonen Tanteidan TBS Summer Drama 2012

• Drama: Naniwa Junior Detectives (English title)
• Romaji: Naniwa Shonen Tanteidan
• Japanese: 浪花少年探偵団
• Director: Makoto Kiyohiro, Tatsuya Ikezawa, Yosuke Higashida
• Writer: Keigo Higashino (novel), Noriko Yoshida, Michiru Egashira, Souru Numazu
• Network: TBS
• Episodes: 12
• Release Date: July 2 – September 17, 2012
• Runtime: Mondays 20:00-20:54
• TV Ratings: 6.1% (weekly average)
• Language: Japanese
• Country: Japan

Plot

Shinobu Takeuchi (Mikako Tabe) becomes a homeroom teacher at Ooki Elemntary School in Osaka, Japan. Shinobu loves mystery novels and can’t stand things when it doesn’t turn out right. Shinobu then attempts to solve a difficult cases that even detectives can’t solve.

Notes

1. Based on the Keigo Higashino novel “Naniwa Shonen Tanteida” (published December, 1988) and its sequel “Shinobu Senseni Sayonara” (published December 12, 1996).

Cast

Mikako Tabe	Teppei Koike	Koji Yamamoto	Fumino Kimura	Yasunori Danta
Shinobu Takeuchi	Shuhei Shindo	Yoshihiko Honma	Mika Haruna	Susumu Urushizaki

Fumiyo Kohinata	Keiko Matsuzaka	Yoichi Nukumizu	Yuki Saito
Yukio Nakata	Taeko Takeuchi	Masao Harada	Hideko Harada

Naniwa private detective team

Koki Maeda	Tatsuomi Hamada	Akira Takahashi
Ikuo Harada	Tetpei Tanaka	Hiroshi Hatanaka

6 grade 2 class

Minami Hamabe	Seigo Agatsuma	Fuka Imai	Riku Ichikawa	Akari Ninomiya
Nana Asakura	Shyota Abe	Mo Ishikawa	Takuma Inoue	Minako Uehara

Mao Sasaki	Taiga Matsuno	Kazuki Hashimoto	Hajime Yoshii	Tomoka Umezawa
Misaki Eto	Ryota Kato	Junichi Shibuya	Tsutomu Serizawa	Yuka Sonoda

Yuki Yagi	Tatsuki Yoshioka	Rena Kawata	Reiwa Suzuki	Runa Sato
Fumi Tsuchiya	Yuta Nakanishi	Asuka Negishi	Tsubasa Noda	Momoko Hino

Masaki Izawa	Maika Tarumoto	Riki Tanifuji	Kanako Furukawa	Mikuni Kuramae
Tomohiro Fukushima	Haruka Matsukawa	Sho Manaka	Natsuki Miwa	Mai Mochida

Kurumi Yokoyama

Miu Yoshikawa

5 grade 1 class

Oshiro Maeda	Raima Hiramatsu
Osamu Harada	Masato Nishida

Additional Cast Members:

• Ariei Umefune – crime laboratory investigation section member
• Hiroaki Daimon
• Yuichi Kimura – Fumio Fukushima (ep.1)
• Yasuko Tomita – Yukie Fukushima (ep.1)
• Seiji Rokkaku – Mizutani (ep.1)
• Ryosuke Otani – Daisuke Ogawa (ep.1)
• Tomoharu Hasegawa – Kido (ep.1)
• Masami Hisamoto – Noriko Yamada (ep.1)
• Nobuo Kyo – Shunichi Wakamoto (ep.1,2,9)
• Magi – Kobayashi (ep.2)
• Takashi Kobayashi – Police Chief (ep.2)
• Kazuyuki Aijima – Takeo Motoyama (ep.3)
• Kotaro Shiga – Ichiro Tomura (ep.3)
• Bokuzo Masana – Tanabe (ep.3)
• Marie Machida – Yuriko Ohara (ep.3)
• Yuko Fueki – Machiko Asakura (ep.3)
• Tsumugi Hatakeyama – (ep.3)
• Shinobu Tsuruta – (ep.3)
• Keizo Kanie – Senbai Nishimaru (ep.4)
• Zen Kajihara – Shoichi Nishimaru (ep.4)
• Seiko Takuma – Kazuyo (ep.4)
• Shizuka Fujimoto – Fukuko Otomo (ep.4)
• Terue Shoji – Tsuruko Fujino (ep.5)
• Junkichi Orimoto – Yohei Fujino (ep.5)
• Kotomi Kyono – Ikuko Serizawa (ep.6)
• Issei Takahashi – Hiroo Yamashita (ep.6)
• Masahiro Kobayashi – Tamotsu Serizawa (ep.6)
• Mei Satsuki – Yoko Shibuya (ep.6,12)
• Narimi Arimori – Chieko Miyashita (ep.7)
• Hiromasa Taguchi – Masashi Uehara (ep.7)
• Tamae Ando – Marie Uehara (ep.7)
• Tsutomu Takahashi – Toshio Arakawa (ep.7)
• Mariko Tsutsui – Tomomi Nakanishi (ep.8)
• Moe Arai – Keiko Nakanishi (ep.8)
• Momoka Ishii – Chizuru Anzai (ep.9)
• Hiroko Nakajima – Yoshiko Anzai (ep.9)
• Hitomi Nakahara – Ineko Matsuoka (ep.9)
• Shunya Isaka – Goro Matsumoto (ep.10)
• Marika Matsumoto – Chikako Takano (ep.10)
• Saori Koide – Akiko Fujikawa (ep.10)
• Yuta Kanai – Naotsugu Sakai (ep.10)
• Eri Fuse – Michiyo Tsutsui (ep.10)
• Machiko Washio – cake shop owner (ep.10)
• Takeshi Masu – Masato Iizuka (ep.11)
• Chiharu – Miyoko Tanaka (ep.11-12)
• Kumiko Fujiyoshi – Kazumi Miyamoto (ep.11-12)
• Takehiro Hira – Toru Yokota (ep.11-12)

Episode Ratings

Source: Video Research, Ltd.

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